heartquake
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editheartquake (plural heartquakes)
- (figurative) Trembling of the heart or emotions; trepidation; fear.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- in many an hour of danger and heart-quake
References
edit- “heartquake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.